A Transformational Shift through Pedagogical Translanguaging: English Language Teaching and the Content of Courses

Subject Areas : All areas of language and translation

Mohammad Iman Askari ¹ (Department of English Language, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran)
Mahsa Ranjbar ² (Department of English Language, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran)

Received: 2022-06-15 Accepted : 2022-07-20 Published : 2023-07-01

Keywords: English Language Teaching (ELT), first language (L1), second language (L2), English as a Foreign Language (EFL), Translanguaging,

Abstract :

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic and considerable reliance on virtual education and communication, the language acquisition contexts are focusing on the transformational shift in pedagogies applying multilingual communicative capacities like ‘translanguaging’. Perhaps the best academic resources to explore about the issue are translation-oriented courses taught through typical teaching strategies in academic English programs. The issue led to reinforcement of considering pedagogical translanguaging within English Language Teaching (ELT) context among EFL learners who attend the related courses of the ELT programs focusing on translation skills. Thus, a sequential explanatory mixed design was selected to study the possible transformation resulted by translanguaging among EFL learners and teachers in the current study. As the pedagogical implications of the study, it is possible to declare that translanguaging within EFL context is considered as an influential strategy in helping teachers and learners to benefit from bilingual capacities in providing and understanding the content of courses. The issue also emphasizes on the transformational shift among the scholars and experts of the EFL context to have a new look over the role of translation, as an interactive code-switching procedure between First Language (L1) and Second Language (L2), which is not banning the language learners’ linguistic repertoire application.

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